Agreed. A program is very context dependent in my experience thought. So you'd probably also want a pretty good record of the people and the environment in which it was created to make sens of it.
BR John Den 2 dec 2012 14:37 skrev "Julian Leviston" <jul...@leviston.net>: > Concrete is better than abstract for learning. > > Julian > > > On 03/12/2012, at 12:23 AM, John Nilsson <j...@milsson.nu> wrote: > > Yes. > > Hence you write a pattern language and spare people the agony of reading > the programs it was discovered in. > > Which was precisely my point. Maybe this is is why we dont read programs > and why we instead have pattern literature as our primary means of > communicating interesting design ideas. > > BR > John > Den 2 dec 2012 14:18 skrev "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com > >: > >> John Nilsson <j...@milsson.nu> writes: >> >> > Isn't the pattern language literature exactly that? An effort to >> > typeset and edit interesting design artifacts. >> >> Unless you're programming in lisp(*), reading a program written with >> patterns is like looking at the wave form of "Hello world!" said aloud. >> >> >> (*) See: >> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ee09f8475bc7b2a0 >> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming/msg/9e7b8aaec1794126 >> >> -- >> __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ >> A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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